Habermas

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Habermas in the two 2018 sessions titled "Ce soir, on repolitise" ("Tonight, we repoliticize"). He places him with the Frankfurt School among those for whom the instituted political order is not what matters1. He presents him as a philosopher of the public rather than of the political, and he judges that he returns to a "hollow" Kant2. According to him, for Habermas the public is truer because it remains indeterminate, while the political forms a determinate community3. He calls him the thinker of the European Union4 and the reference point of Emmanuel Macron5. In the tribute to Domenico Losurdo, he cites Habermas's view of the war against Yugoslavia as a purely universalist intervention, and he sees in it an "absolute empiricism"6. In 2020, discussing Arendt and Heidegger, he mentions the oxymoron of a "young-conservative of the left" Benjamin in connection with Habermas7.

1. 1Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 37:19
2. 2Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 1:36:48
3. 3Tonight, we repoliticise (part 2)31 Mar 2018 · 5:20
4. 4Tonight, we repoliticise (part 1)12 Mar 2018 · 1:39:15
5. 5Tonight, we repoliticise (part 2)31 Mar 2018 · 41:59
6. 6Tribute to Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 23:19
7. 7Arendt and Heidegger: the destruction of thought24 Sept 2020 · 19:17

Summary produced automatically from 7 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.